Acronyms
ANSTF | Aquatic Species Nuisance Task Force |
APHIS | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
APWG | Alien Plant Working Group |
ARS | Agricultural Research Service |
BBS | Breeding Bird Survey |
BCDC | Biological Control Documentation Center |
BRD | Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey |
BLM | Bureau of Land Management |
CABI | CAB International |
CAPS | Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey |
CENR | Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources |
DIAGDATA | Wildlife Health Diagnostics Database |
DOD | Department of Defense |
DOI | Department of the Interior |
EFPISNA | Exotic Forest Pest Information System for North America |
EPIZOO | Wildlife Health Epizootiological Database |
FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization |
FICMNEW | Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds |
FNW | Federal Noxious Weeds |
FS | United States Forest Service |
GEF | Global Environmental Facility |
GISP | Global Invasive Species Programme |
GPPIS | Global Plant Pest Information System |
GRIN | Germplasm Resources Information Network |
HEAR | Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk Project |
IABIN | Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network |
ICSU | International Council of Scientific Unions |
INHS | Illinois Natural History Survey |
IPPC | International Plant Protection Convention |
IRL | Indian River Lagoon |
ISSG | Invasive Species Specialist Group |
ITIS | Integrated Taxonomic Information System |
IUCN | World Conservation Union, formerly International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources |
MGD | Microbial Germplasm Database |
NANIAD | North American Non-Indigenous Arthropod Database |
NAPIS | National Agricultural Pest Information System of the U.S. Geological Survey |
NAS | National Science Foundation |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NBCI | National Biological Control Institute |
NBII | National Biological Information Infrastructure |
NCPI | Native Plant Conservation Initiative |
NCDA&CS | North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services |
NIS | Nonindigenous Species |
NMNH | National Museum of Natural History |
NPS | National Park Service |
NRCS | Natural Resources Conservation Service |
OIE | Office International des Epizooties |
OMB | Office of Management and Budget |
OTA | Office of Technology Assessment |
PPQ | Plant Protection and Quarantine |
RMF | Charles Valetine Riley Memorial Foundation |
ROBO | Releases of Beneficial Organisms in the U.S. and Territories |
SCOPE | Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment |
SEL | Systematic Entomology Laboratory |
SERC | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center |
SIDS | Small Island Developing States |
SNOMED | The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine |
STS | Slow-the-Spread |
SWEMP | Southwest Exotic Plant Mapping Database |
USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
USGS | United States Geological Survey |
UNEP | United Nations Environment Program |